MotW 11/18/2009 - Mother ####ing FRANKENCASTLE wins the week

jkylefulton

Punisher #11 was awesome. Invincible was also awesome, but not as awesome as Frankencastle. My shop didn't have the Realm of Kings oneshot, so I'll have to look elsewhere.

Edit: An example of Tony Moore Frankencastle -

TexiKen

My shop didn't have G-Man #4, and then I read Adventure Comics #4 (and my blue ring has the orange lantern symbol, so Larfleeze finally got what he wanted), and I'm basically in the negative for awesome moments right now.

wirehead26

What happened to Bullseye in Dark Avengers was definitely a MotW for me. Also the end of Wolverine: Weapon X was fantastic.

TexiKen

Ok, after seeing what happened in Flash Rebirth #5, I was so very very low in hope these days.

BUT! Realm of Kings made it better, really really good setup to the Fault:

Wendell is in the evil world, inhabiting the evil Wendell's body. He sees the Avengers beat up Banner who was that big thing of tentacles, and is captured (Tony rips out Banner's heart too):











I like that it is basically magic vs. science in this world.

And then Wendell does this to evil magic Thor while he tries to get away!:



And Wendell escapes to see their entire universe is this big decaying evil magic corpse that wants to expand into our universe, and Wendell gets back to our universe but he has evil shifty eyes in the last panel oh no!

DnA can do no wrong with the cosmic stuff these days.

Faynor

My theory is

Evil Wendell is a quantum energy ghost inside now flesh-and-blood good Wendell.

I kind of hope it's right, because I want there to be a chance for Wendell.

TexiKen

Oh yeah, that's definitely the way it will be. And Chuck Austen can say he did it first!

Golden Yak

With regards to Realm of Kings (which was even more awesome that I thought it would be, and that was already pretty awesome):

I think that

our good Wendell never made it back - the Quasar we see at the end was the evil Quasar that the Iävengers mentioned sending through their end of the Fault earlier.

durandal4532

Hahaha

I love that it's a What If Cthulhu world, down to "What the Ftaghn?"

It's simultaneously silly and creepy.

KVW

Along with the Realm of Kings love, I loved the I Kill Giants team handling the backup in Amazing Spider-man.

Faynor

Golden Yak wrote: »

With regards to Realm of Kings (which was even more awesome that I thought it would be, and that was already pretty awesome):

I think that

our good Wendell never made it back - the Quasar we see at the end was the evil Quasar that the Iävengers mentioned sending through their end of the Fault earlier.

Too obvious.

Tach

I'm gonna be first in line if they do an action figure of Quasar's new outfit.

DarkWarrior

I like the demon Avengers, never seen that take before.

DarkWarrior

So Wolverine Origins was good this week, Im stunned to, Romulus is still stupid, in name and concept, much like Daken. Must be a thing with animal-inspired super healers slowly diminishing whatever it was that made Wolverine a bit unique. But the stuff in this particular comic was fun for the most part.

X-Men Vs Atlas ended as predictably as could be imagined with them all entering a circle jerk but it set up a decent sub plot with Venus and most of the stuff not with the X-Men was good.

mattharvest

DarkWarrior wrote: »

I like the demon Avengers, never seen that take before.

I like that they're not demons; the Multi-Angled Ones aren't demons or devils (if they're borrowing the Cthulu-mythos properly, from before the introduction of 'good' and 'evil' into their motivations) but rather simply are. These Avengers are't trying to be evil, but rather do whatever they can to please their masters without concern for good or evil.

TexiKen

That's a good sum up of them. They still seem to have things in a society like a President and others on that world, they just all try to appease the angled-ones.

DouglasDanger

Man, trade-waiting Remender's Punisher is hard.

Golden Yak

Yeah, one of the big elements of the Cthulu Mythos is that the monsters aren't good or evil as humans understand it - their very existence is simply so alien to ours that humans go insane and reality breaks down when they're around.

Marvel's used elements of the Mythos for characters before, but I don't think they've gone this far with it. It should make for a good series.

Gonmun

Man, I haven't been able to get into my comic shop in a while. Once I get some money I'm going to have to play catch-up.

Frankencastle looks freaky awesome.

TexiKen

Outsiders #24 was good, and the best of the ring tie-ins so far, because Tomasi was able to make the smooth transition between what he was writing and connecting it to this event. Pasarin has some good art as well, he reminds me of Scott Eaton; he's not flashy, but he's punctual and can tell a clean story.

Half the book is BL Terra basically setting up the team to rip their hearts out in a nice show of her being a manipulator like she was on the Titans.

The other half was Violet and Katanna catching up with their girl talks hauling Croc back form Louisiana:



But then Tatsu's dead husband and kids show up and destroy the truck, and Katanna falls for it:









I really like that scene with Violet, how they just keep going as they get torn apart.

And then Katanna realizes they're bad zombies and fight them!

DarkWarrior

The hells up with Crocs arm?

EDIT: Deadpool

DP - Oh come on, no way is Avril Lavigne hotter than Pink and that Alone/Lonely song is awesome! I thought we were supposed to be the same!
ZDP - I was thinking in terms of which one you'd rather eat. Avril is younger and fresher. Lord knows where Pink has been.

DouglasDanger

DarkWarrior wrote: »

The hells up with Crocs arm?

It looks like he's doing the lizards can regrow lost limbs thing.

Robos A Go Go

DarkWarrior wrote: »

The hells up with Crocs arm?

Looks like he's regrowing it. Didn't know he could regenerate body parts, but whatever.

DarkWarrior

Weird, looked like a childs arm in a striped jumper, didnt even clock it was Croc.

DarkWarrior

Some Deadpool MWAM scans.

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Munch

You might want to remove a few of those scans. Ten pages is really pushing the limit of fair use.

Robos A Go Go

Also, they are kind of big.

DarkWarrior

Anyone else got something to complain about concerning my non-profit, free-will endeavour?

I've removed two pages, I'm not resizing them and reuploading them, takes long enough as is and I've hidden them behind a spoiler so they aren't breaking your screens.

TexiKen

Anything more than 8 pages will make Peter David show up and ruin everything.

7 pages, this seems to be the unwritten rule that S_D uses.

jkylefulton

Could you post less Deadpool and more Frankencastle, DW?

DarkWarrior

jkylefulton wrote: »

Could you post less Deadpool and more Frankencastle, DW?

If I could find a MOTW in there I would.

jkylefulton

A team of Universal Monsters being written by a fun pulp writer and being drawn by Art Adams 3.0. I guess you can't please everyone.

fray

The line "Man, that is angry water" in DA for some reason cracked me up. Also RoK was even better than I was expecting. Shame it's only a one-shot It's nice to see some old-school Lovecraftian tentacled horrors done right.

Vermis

Franken-Castle was a bit better than I thought it'd be, partly because of the art. Had to check the credits to make sure it wasn't Carlos Ezquerra.
Uh... concentrate on the pencils there.

Also, Deadpool makes pop-culture references. Lawl.

KyleWPeterson

Did anyone pick up Superman/Batman? Spoil it for me please if you did.

Tach

KyleWPeterson wrote: »

Did anyone pick up Superman/Batman? Spoil it for me please if you did.

Gotham under siege by Black Lanterns- the city loses power. Frankenstein & the Bride are with Ms. Langstrom & the GCPD, trying to hunt down Man-Bat to revert him back to Kirk.

Bizzaro, in some lonely episode, decides to aid his friend Man-Bat, and rescues him in mid-detox.

A black ring decends into the swamp and revives Solomon Grundy (as seen in the last pages of his mini) who then attacks Bizzaro/Man-Bat. Bizzaro is suitably confused, but then gives in and starts to beat the snot out of Grundy.

I think that's it.

KyleWPeterson

Much appreciated.

Servo

Munch wrote: »

You might want to remove a few of those scans. Ten pages is really pushing the limit of fair use.

as far as i'm concerned on the forum, "fair use"= less than half (not trades, obviously)


so, if you have a 24 page comic, 11 pages would be reasonable. if you really felt you needed to put up that many.

The Lovely Bastard

dang servo

I wouldn't expect it to be that lenient

I'd say like 6 tops

Servo

i'm not saying you have to post that much, i'm just saying that's the upper limit i would prefer

Kipling217

I would go for 1/3 at the max myself. Like 8 out of 24. Heavens knows that its a rare comic that actually has 12 pages of story in it. What with moodsetting front pages, "SHOCKING REVEAL" ending pages and assorted artist splash pages.

Servo

i don't care what the rest of you would do! the only other people who get opinions are geebs and whippy. and i guess tube, if he cared.